The Wistful Mountain

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The mortar ground against the pestle, a sound like dry bones snapping in the dark, and Tovar Eland did not stop until his shoulder burned. He was thirty-two, and his hands, stained the color of bruised plums, moved with the mechanical precision of a man who had long ago stopped feeling the weight of his own labor. In the cellar beneath the border town of Kael, where the walls wept condensation...

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